The Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia argentina, is close to collapse on Sunday in an unusual spectacle in full austral winter.
The process of breaking that started on Friday could be effect of global warming, said an official of the Los Glaciares National Park.
Hundreds of tourists came to the scene to witness the spectacle, which usually occurs in times of high temperatures. The previous rupture had been recorded in March 2006.
The process of breaking “is moving as in other years. Now it continues to be the tunnel and in a few hours will have to fall,” he said in statements television Carlos Corvalan, mayor of Los Glaciares National Park in the southern province of Santa Cruz.
“It’s the first time the glacier breaks in winter since 1917, when was the first break, until now, has always been in summer,” he said.
Breaking the barrier of ice that form the glacier on the peninsula Magallanes Lake Argentino collapses generally every four years.
The Perito Moreno glacier, which covers an area of about 200 square kilometers, has a front of about three kilometres long and a height of about 70 metres above the lake.
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